{"id":354984,"date":"2026-01-30T16:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T10:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=354984"},"modified":"2026-01-30T16:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T10:33:08","slug":"sea-of-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sea-of-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Sea of Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>News:<\/strong> Recently, North Korea fired a ballistic missile towards the Sea of Japan disturbing the already sensitive region.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\">About Sea of Japan<\/h2>\n<figure style=\"width: 275px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.worldatlas.com\/r\/w768\/upload\/da\/ca\/f7\/seaofjapan-01.png?resize=275%2C275&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Sea of Japan \" width=\"275\" height=\"275\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source &#8211; World Atlas<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Sea of Japan is a <strong>marginal sea<\/strong> located in the<strong> western Pacific Ocean.<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Boundaries:<\/strong> It is bounded by <strong>Russia<\/strong> and <strong>Sakhalin Island<\/strong> in the north, by <strong>North Korea<\/strong> in the west,<strong> South Korea<\/strong> in the southwest, and by the <strong>Japanese archipelago <\/strong>in the east and south.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Straits:<\/strong> It is<strong> connected<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong> with the:<\/strong><\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong> East China Sea<\/strong> in the south via the<strong> Tsushima<\/strong> and <strong>Korea straits<\/strong> <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Okhotsk Sea <\/strong>in the north by the<strong> La Perouse and Tatar straits.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Inland Sea of Japan<\/strong> in the east via the <strong>Kanmon Strait<\/strong> and <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Pacific Ocean <\/strong>by the<strong> Tsugaru Strait.<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><b>Deepest Point:<\/b> Dohoku Seamount, an underwater volcano<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;text-align: justify\"><strong>Geography:\u00a0<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Width:<\/strong> <strong>1,070 km wide<\/strong> and <strong>a<\/strong><\/span><strong>bout 2,255 km in length<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Depth:<\/strong> It has a <strong>maximum depth of 3,742 m<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Three major deep-water basins:<\/strong> <strong>Japan Basin<\/strong> in the <strong>north<\/strong>, the <strong>Yamato Basin<\/strong> in the <strong>southeast<\/strong>, and the <strong>Tsushima Basin<\/strong> in the<strong> southwest.<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It <strong>serves as the meeting point of the cold currents from the north and the warm currents from the south.<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There are <strong>no large islands in the Sea of Japan.<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Largest River:\u00a0<\/b><strong>Tumen or Dooman river<\/strong> is the<strong> largest river<\/strong> draining into the Sea of Japan.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;text-align: justify\"><strong>Ports: <\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Main Russian ports:<\/strong> Vladivostok, Sovetskaya Gavan, Nakhodka, Alexandrovsk-Sakhalinsky, and Kholmsk.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Major North Korean ports:<\/strong> Hamhung, Chongjin, and Wonsan.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Notable Japanese ports:<\/strong> Niigata, Tsuruta and Maizuru.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Flora:<\/strong> The Sea of Japan supports rich marine biodiversity with<strong> over 800 species of aquatic flora and<\/strong><\/span><strong> around 3,500 species of aquatic species.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Recently, North Korea fired a ballistic missile towards the Sea of Japan disturbing the already sensitive region. About Sea of Japan The Sea of Japan is a marginal sea located in the western Pacific Ocean. 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